Am I alone in thinking that ITV1 game shows are encouraging a culture of greed and dishonesty. I find Golden Balls terrible, encouraging people to cheat and lie for money.

The latest offering Divided is even worse, to win anything a contestant must declare themselves as superior their oponents and then encourage one or the other to accept that they are less deserving of the prize on offer. Who decides that the share out of prize money should be so lop sided that nobody is prepared to accept the lowest value. The result is that the prize money dwindles while contestants argue.

Add these awful shows to Biggest Loser, where contestants are expected to vote off oponents often reducing them to tears and the afternoon is over.

Who dreams up these shows, has ITV taken on a Thatcherite with the brief to design shows where only the greedy can win and everybody else is automatically a loser. I now automatically switch channels once Dickinsons Real Deal finishes.

Thank goodness for other channels where we can still watch progammes such as Countdown and The Weakest Link which entertain without reducing contestants to grovelling to retain their place and cheating to win.